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Knowledge Center - Home   pre-raphaelite  [1848 - 1854]
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The Pre-Raphaelite movement which actually came 400 years after Raphael's birth was a brotherhood of artists that were attempting to re-capture the style, simplicity and subject matter of the early Italian art preceding Raphael. These young English artists followed a set of structured aims to further their brotherhood, which many of their contemporaries believed were clearly anti-progressive and simply ludicrous.

The Pre-Raphaelite movement was co-founded by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He felt that as an artist he needed to have a "fidelity to nature" that had been lost in art since Raphael. This young revolutionary group of painters quickly dissolved as they matured, and the Pre-Rapaelite movement ended as quickly as it began. Nevertheless, the ideals and philosophy of the movement have continued to emerge as other artists embrace the possibilities of the movement.

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that Charles Dickens despised the Pre-Raphaelites so much that he called their work in his periodical Household Words, "mean, odious, revolting and repulsive."
top 10 pre-raphaelite prints
  • John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott
  • John William Waterhouse, Boreas
  • John William Waterhouse, A Mermaid
  • John William Waterhouse, Circe Invidiosa
  • Edward Robert Hughes, Midsummer Eve
  • John William Waterhouse, The Crystal Ball
  • John William Waterhouse, Lady of Shalott
  • John William Waterhouse, Miranda - The Tempest
  • John William Waterhouse, The Soul of the Rose
  • John William Waterhouse, A Mermaid
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